> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:16:54 +0100 > Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > >> On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:42, Nick Rout wrote: >> >> > which you probably cannot do without logging in as root at a console >> > as once you log into X as user, you cannot su. chicken egg chicken >> > egg. >> >> Not necessarily: if you use kde, konsole has a "root shell" feature. > > Which I suspect only works if you can use su, although i am not 100% on > that. > dosn't su just have its own /etc/pam.d/su file that has pam_rootok.so in it so root can just su without a passwd and it also has a module that checks if they are in the wheel group. > >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
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